Community Plan

What is the Community Plan?

'Chester's Way Ahead', the community plan is the agreed vision to improve the quality of life for everyone who works, rests and plays in Chester. It lays down the priorities and targets to promote the improvement to the provision of public and other services by making them evermore responsive to the community's needs and aspirations. The starting point for the plan is the views, priorities and concerns of local people and a comprehensive engagement programme took place in 2000/1.

 

The plan now guides the work of Chester in Partnership, a well established network of public, private, voluntary and community organisations and groups. It does not seek to reinvent the wheel! It builds on existing plans and strategies and seeks to identify where partner organisations can work together more effectively.

All local authorities under the Local Government Act 2000 have a duty to produce a community plan or strategy that addresses the future social, economic and environmental well-being of their communities.

Chester in Partnership started the process of reviewing the community plan for Chester in Autumn 2003.  Activity to review progress with the original plan, to pull together a statistical picture of the district and to involve people in putting forward their ideas for the new plan have taken place.

The new community plan Chester's Way Ahead flows from this review.  It sets out the priorities of Chester people, what is already being done to respond to these and how progress will be measured.  It also identifies where help needs to be most targeted, especially the neighbourhoods where quality of life needs most improvement.
The new revised Community Plan was formally launched on 21 October 2005 and is now available to view or download.

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• New Community Plan 1.8mb